Reading in the Garden

Annette's 2013 Book Club Winners and Losers If you’ve read a few of my blog posts, you may know that I belong to a small book club . We don’t always plow through a regimented list of a book a month. People get busy. The short summer months are usually calling us to do other things like make dates with the sunshine, while December is busy with Christmas activities.  This year between the sun and snow, work and family, and our own selection of books, we managed to squeeze in eight book club selections.  I have reviewed all but one of them in the blog.  Click on the titles to see the full reviews. Here are our book club members’ average ratings of those books on a scale of 1-5 with five being the best rating. The Diary of Mattie Spenser   by Sandra Dallas   | | | |   (4.5) A woman marries a man she barely knows and moves to the Colorado Territory where she faces adversity on the new frontier and in her home. Mattie is an optimistic breath of fresh air even thr

Top Ten Fiction Books of 2013 Today, I thought it would be fun to see what I’ve been missing this year.  Below are the top ten lists for fiction this year from various sources.  It seems I have a lot of catching up to do. Which ones did you read? Good Reads Best Books of 2013 Choice Awards https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-fiction-books-2013 And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini A look into the lives of a brother and sister and their families in Afghanistan, 1952. The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult An unlikely friendship between a young woman who lost her mother and an elderly man who later confesses a long-buried and shameful secret. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes A love story of an ordinary girl who tries to help a wheelchair bound ex-Master of the Universe. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt After surviving a crash, a young boy is taken in by a friend’s family. He clings to a small painting from his mother an